Our old friend, Rold Nylinder, has been shooting a lot of videos this summer in waters around his home in Sweden. Rather than traveling to rivers where he knows fishing is great, he’s exploring forest streams that may or may not hold fish. In this . . .
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Video: 10+ Proven Hopper-Dropper Rigs
Drew Ross—a.k.a. Looknfishy—is a great angler, but the dude can’t count. In this useful video, he walks us through his favorite fly combinations for when a situation calls for a hopper-dropper rig. (He throws in a couple of ant patterns for good measure, . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tip: The “Hammer” Method of Fly Casting
One of the toughest things to explain to a new fly caster is how important the hard stop at the end of each stroke is. In this video from Trout Unlimited, my friend Kirk Deeter offers a tip taught to him by the late, great Charlie Meyers: When you are . . .
Read MoreVideo: Macrame Cord for Parachutes?
This week, Tim looks into something that he hears a lot in the comment of any video featuring a parachute. Will craft-store macrame cord work in place of the polypropylene yarn you buy in the fly shop? It turns out that you need to do some . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: What to Do When the Bite Turns Off
One problem that every angler deals with is when the fish just aren’t buying what you’re selling. Maybe you were catching fish and then everything slowed down, or perhaps you haven’t been able to tempt anything at all. Whether you’re casting dry flies, . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Golden Woolly Bugger
There have been dozens, if not hundreds, of variations on the Woolly Bugger over the years, but every once in awhile you come across one that produces when nothing else will. The guys from The New Fly Fisher had just such an experience with this . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tip: Dry Your Flies with a Rubber Band
Few things are more frustrating than a dry fly that won’t float–especially when you know that it’s the right pattern that the trout will eat. Here’s a great tip from Hawkins Outfitters Head Guide Jon . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Set Up a Dropper Rig
Here’s the first in a new video series called “Advanced Fly-Fishing Tactics,” from Dave and Amelia Jensen of Jensen Fly Fishing. These new videos will focus on tips and tactics designed to take . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Read Water, from a Master Angler’s Perspective
Craig Fellin established Big Hole Lodge in 1984, and he’s learned a lot about how to catch trout in rivers in the four decades since. This is the first in a seven-video series on successful fly fishing, in which he discusses reading the water. The first step, of . . .
Read MoreVideos: Three Terrific Patterns for “Trico Time”
Tricos (genus: Tricorythodes) provide some of the best late-summer action on the Battenkill, so here are three killer patterns from Tightline Productions. (And don’t miss the fabulous. . .
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